Famous quotes containing the words victor hugo, hugo and/or paris:
“Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me
So that I may leave this place and disappear.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcæ, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)